I love the movie adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City. I also enjoy watching Mel Gibson's romantic comedy What Women Want. But when it comes to the genre of historical fiction, Hollywood's lack of historical accuracy is damning indeed. Witness Mel Gibson's Braveheart and Patriot, and now, 300 the movie, a movie adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae ...

The above link does not take you to the official site for the movie, nor to its IMDb entry; it takes you to Project 300, started by Toronto-based Persian blogger Pendar Yousefi (BBC coverage). Do go and visit the links -- if you agree with the objections, you can join the Google-bombing campaign by linking to the Project 300 site with the link text 300 the movie to make sure that people searching for the movie finds this site.

The danger of historical inaccuracies in fictional work, after all, is that people who are not familiar with the actual historical accounts might mistaken the fictional portrayal for reality. It's bad enough to do it with subjects such as the USA's War of Independence (the Nazification of British Loyalist troops has the horrible effect of whitewashing actual Nazi atrocities in WW2 Europe); to do a movie that villifies the culture of a country the US war machine is gearing up against is, frankly speaking, rather immoral.